Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard called out the “laundry list” of issues where Ukraine veers away from America’s values of democracy and freedom.
Speaking on Fox News following last week’s disastrous meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Gabbard elaborated on the argument that Europe’s values don’t align with those in the U.S. as she pointed out how Ukraine has been under martial law – with no elections – since Russia invaded in 2022.
“We’re talking about many of these European countries and Zelenskyy himself, who claim to be standing and fighting for the cause of freedom and democracy, when we actually look at what’s happening in reality in these countries, as well as with the Zelenskyy’s government in Ukraine, is the exact opposite,” she told Fox News’ Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday.”
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“You have the canceling of elections in Ukraine. You have political parties being silenced or even criminalized or thrown in prison. You have the freedom of religion, churches being shut down, you have political opposition being silenced, you have total government control of the media,” Gabbard continued.
“It really begs the question,” she said. “As Vice President Vance said again in Munich, it’s clear that they’re standing against Putin. Obviously, that’s clear. But what are they actually really fighting for, and are they aligned with the values that they claim to hold in agreement with us? The values that President Trump and Vice President Vance are standing for, and those are the values of freedom, of peace and true security.”
Gabbard spoke about the reactions from some European nations in the wake of the surprising blowout at the White House with Zelenskyy.
“We heard very clearly during Vice President Vance’s speech in Munich, different examples of how these European partners and longtime allies, in many cases, are actually implementing policies that undermine democracy that shows that they don’t actually believe in the voices of the people being heard, and implementing anti-freedom policies,” she told Bream.
“We’re seeing this in the United Kingdom. We’re seeing this in Germany. We saw it with the tossing out of the elections in Romania,” she continued.
“There’s something fundamentally deeper here that shows a huge difference and divergence between the values that President Trump and Vice President Vance are fighting for, the values that are enshrined in our Constitution, the interests of the American people in our peace and freedom and national security, versus those of many of these European countries who are coming to Zelenskyy’s side as he walked out of the White House, saying basically, that they are going to support him in continuing this war, and that they don’t stand with us around these fundamental values of freedom,” she said.
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